- #1 Settlement Survival
97% matchVery Positive85% of 8,102 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
Why similar: City Builder 26.1%, Colony Sim 25.3%, Building 12.8%, Survival 10.1%, Management 8.7%
- #2 Arcane Shores
96% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Absent Slumber
Windows
Arcane Shores is a city-building strategy game infused with magic. Build, defend, and expand your settlement while casting powerful spells that bend nature, restore what’s broken, and turn the tide against your enemies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, City Builder 25.7%, Building 11%, Survival 10.4%, Economy 9.8%
- #3 Farmman
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rossoft Interactive
Windows · Mac
Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, City Builder 22.3%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 10%, Economy 9.8%
- #4 Isla Paradiso
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Paradiso Studio
Windows
Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, City Builder 25.8%, Building 12.4%, Economy 10.7%, Management 8.1%
- #5 Highrise City
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,303 reviews2023
Dev: Fourexo EntertainmentPub: Deck13
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Highrise City offers a new spin on City Simulations & Tycoon games expanding the economy and resource management aspect. Experience a modern take on the genre enriched with a complex resource based economy system.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, City Builder 21.7%, Diplomacy 17.8% ★, Building 8.9%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #6 Stonehearth
93% matchMostly Positive75% of 13,081 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34%, City Builder 27.4%, Building 12.3%, Sandbox 9.9%, Survival 9.2%
- #7 Blocktopia
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stak Games
Windows
Blocktopia is a vibrant and humorous clicker city-builder game. Gather resources, build your town, and defend it against nightly raids! In this chaotic world where justice prevails, survive and dive into a fun city-building experience!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, City Builder 23.4%, Diplomacy 17.9% ★, Sandbox 10.1%, Survival 9.9%
- #8 Make Your Kingdom
91% matchMixed58% of 197 reviews2022
Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
Windows
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, City Builder 22.2%, Building 12.2%, Survival 9.9%, Management 8.9%
- #9 Paleon
91% matchVery Positive81% of 424 reviews2023
Dev: Paleodev
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.5%, City Builder 20%, Survival 13%, Building 10.4%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #10 Terra-7
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A Business Colony Sim where you build your company on a hostile alien world. Keep your employees happy. Bring results—and profits—to investors. All at the same time!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, City Builder 24.6%, Building 12.3%, Economy 10.9%, Sandbox 10.6%
- #11 Property Pro
89% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: SimDevs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your tower is falling apart and your staff came from the classified ads. Build the rooms, take in the guests, then hire the people to keep it standing. Send the plumber to the burst pipe, not the front desk. Put the wrong worker on the wrong job and you'll watch your guests walk out.
Why similar: City Builder 21%, Colony Sim 20.1%, Building 12.5%, Time Management 10.9%, Economy 10.9%
- #12 Banished
89% matchVery Positive90% of 43,352 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8%, City Builder 32.7%, Survival 9.6%, Sandbox 5.9%, Strategy 3.7%
- #13 Founders' Fortune
88% matchVery Positive80% of 2,189 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.5%, City Builder 21.2%, Building 10.4%, Survival 7.7%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #14 Frostward
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Digital Acres Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build a settlement. Survive the winter. In this procedural colony simulator, your villagers are your lifeline. Guide them through a harsh wilderness and expand a struggling camp into a massive, thriving colony island.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, City Builder 19.5%, Time Management 11.6%, Life Sim 8.6%, Building 8.3%
- #15 Gnomoria
87% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,539 reviews2016
Dev: Robotronic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7%, City Builder 25.5%, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 10.5%, Survival 8.7%
- #16 Oxygen: First Breath
86% matchVery Positive89% of 1,666 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, City Builder 23.3%, Survival 10.6%, Building 10.3%, Economy 9%
- #17 Settler's Domain
84% matchMixed66% of 87 reviews2026
Dev: rick
Windows
Settler's Domain is a strategy game about building a new settlement in unknown lands. Grow your population, explore the map, and contend with other settlements while keeping your settlers alive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, Diplomacy 24% ★, City Builder 23.9%, Economy 9.6%, Management 6.5%
- #18 What's Left Behind
85% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Hoovler Industries, Inc.
Windows
A tile-based city re-builder set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, City Builder 29%, Building 13.5%, Economy 10.7%, Management 9.5%
- #19 Seeds of Resilience
84% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, City Builder 21.5%, Building 11.8%, Survival 9.7%, Economy 9.6%
- #20 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder - Prologue
82% matchMostly Positive72% of 236 reviews2024
Dev: Hobo BunchPub: Gameparic
Windows
The Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. El Dorado - Prologue is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.2%, City Builder 19%, Diplomacy 14% ★, Economy 9.5%, Building 8.8%
- #21 Pixel Colony
82% matchPositive93% of 46 reviews2023
Dev: Broken Toilet Games
Windows · Linux
Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources. Protect your settlement and colonists from hostile environment and make a great city!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, City Builder 27.4%, Management 9.9%, Survival 9.8%, Building 6.4%
- #22 Hamlet
81% matchNo user reviews2028
Dev: K2 Games
Windows
Hamlet is a medieval city builder where pivotal characters drive your economy and define product quality and quantity. Manage and develop your people wisely because every person counts! Can you grow your hamlet into a powerhouse that rivals even the capital?
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, City Builder 24%, Diplomacy 10.2% ★, Economy 8.4%, Management 6.5%
- #23 The Hostel Project
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: figmargaux
Windows · Mac · Linux
Run your own backpacker hostel in this cozy management sim. Start from humble beginnings and grow your hostel to be the most legendary, or infamous, spot in town. Host influencers, pub crawls, and complete local-themed sponsorships to build your fame and achieve that prestigious 10/10 rating.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, City Builder 16%, Management 11.9%, Building 11.5%, Life Sim 10.4%
- #24 Patron
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,196 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, City Builder 25.8%, Survival 11.7%, Building 8.3%, Economy 7.8%
- #25 Tokeis
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Toe Key
Windows
Tokeis is a board-like real-time city builder about growing your town from a tiny tile to a hexagonal empire. Collect tokens, manage resources, reorganize inefficiencies, and fortify your economy. Handle the harsh weather and defend against raiders trying to steal your riches!
Why similar: City Builder 22.5%, Colony Sim 19.8%, Economy 11.7%, Building 10.6%, Survival 10.2%
- #26 Dawn of Man
79% matchVery Positive87% of 17,862 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 30.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
Why similar: City Builder 36.9%, Colony Sim 35.3%, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 5.3%, Economy 4.1%
- #27 Colonize Prologue
78% matchMixed64% of 514 reviews2022
Dev: RembrosoftPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Colonize Prologue is a combination of survival game and building strategy that takes place during the colonization period - the 17th century. It tells the story of a settlement in the new world and all the difficulties encountered by the early settlers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, City Builder 22%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 9.9%, Survival 9.1%
- #28 XIRI: Oasis Cities
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bulat Gaineev
Windows · Linux
XIRI: Oasis Cities is a survival-driven city builder set in a high-tech future. Defend your city from disasters, cyberattacks, espionage, diseases, and growing unrest. Expand through powerful corporations that fuel growth, influence neighboring settlements, and reshape the balance of power.
Why similar: City Builder 21.5%, Diplomacy 21.2% ★, Colony Sim 17.5%, Survival 10%, Building 9.2%
- #29 Whiskerwood
75% matchVery Positive92% of 3,795 reviews2025
Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8%, Diplomacy 17.8% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Building 9.3%, Economy 8.4%
- #30 Little Renters
77% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: JnB
Windows
Take on the challenge of managing these Little Renters and their needs. Keep them happy with the right decoration and set your rent prices to maximize profits! Stay alert as Thieves, Squatters, Fires, Sick Renters and Broken Decorations can cause you to Fail!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, City Builder 22.3%, Time Management 17.5%, Economy 11.3%, Management 8.5%
- #31 Orc Colony
78% matchMixed60% of 43 reviews2019
Dev: Luzon Games
Windows
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.4%, City Builder 14.9%, Building 9.3%, Management 7.6%, Survival 6.7%
- #32 Oxygen
76% matchMostly Positive71% of 915 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24%, City Builder 22.3%, Survival 10.4%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #33 Synergy
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,098 reviews2025
Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 55%
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.
Why similar: Diplomacy 20.6% ★, Colony Sim 20%, City Builder 18.6%, Economy 9.9%, Building 9.6%
- #34 Pharaoh™: A New Era
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 5,400 reviews2023
Dev: Triskell InteractivePub: Dotemu
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
The legendary city-builder returns! Lead the creation of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen in this HD remake with modernized UI. Build monuments, manage your population and explore 4,000 years of history through over a hundred hours of gameplay.
Why similar: City Builder 24.9%, Colony Sim 21.8%, Diplomacy 17.4% ★, Building 11.8%, Economy 9.5%
- #35 Settlements Rising
74% matchVery Positive81% of 436 reviews2025
Dev: The Catalyst Crew
Windows
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, City Builder 25.8%, Building 10.5%, Management 7.6%, Survival 7.5%
- #36 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
76% matchMixed66% of 6,027 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 31.3 hrs≥1hr: 63%
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.9%, City Builder 34.3%, Building 8.4%, Survival 8%, Strategy 3.4%
- #37 Nova Roma
72% matchVery Positive93% of 2,363 reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.6%, City Builder 18%, Diplomacy 16.7% ★, Building 9.5%, Economy 8.6%
- #38 Mountania
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Zemore Indie Games
Windows
Build and manage a thriving mountain colony. Mine, craft, defend your people, and delve deep as you seek the riches buried below. But beware: the mountain is as abundant in threats as it is in resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5%, City Builder 26.1%, Building 17.1%, Sandbox 11.9%, Survival 6.6%
- #39 Exile
73% matchMixed60% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: JD7 Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A survival city-builder unlike any other—shaped by rolling hills, guide generations, and grow without limits. No cap on scale, no slowdown, just strategy and survival at your pace.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, City Builder 24.2%, Building 11.5%, Survival 10.8%, Economy 9.9%
- #40 Scaling Up
71% matchPositive86% of 29 reviews2026
Dev: Flannel Bear Games
Windows · Mac
Become the owner of a snake ranch! As a small dragon, raise your ranch from the ground up. Gather and manage resources, build various facilities to house your snakes, make sure they are cared for to keep them happy, and collect their beautiful scales, to forge stronger equipment and scale up!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, City Builder 22.2%, Time Management 13.8%, Sandbox 10%, Building 9%
- #41 Goblin Colony
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quench Forge
Windows
Goblins live for about 20 days. Build a colony that outlasts them. Grow food, dig into the hillside, organize workshops and hauling, and prepare for raids. Raise the next generation and turn a woodland settlement into a fortress of their own.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1%, City Builder 21.1%, Management 9.9%, Building 9.6%, Survival 8.7%
- #42 Catizens
71% matchVery Positive81% of 368 reviews2024
Dev: badopticsgamesPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, City Builder 21.7%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 9.9%, Survival 9.7%
- #43 Dungeon Overseer
73% matchMixed55% of 51 reviews2021
Dev: Ripknot
Windows
Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, City Builder 22.1%, Economy 11.6%, Building 11.5%, Management 6.8%
- #44 United Penguin Kingdom
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 453 reviews2024
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 27.1%, Colony Sim 18.6%, Survival 12.6%, Economy 12.1%, Management 10.9%
- #45 Radia Island
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Radia Studio
Windows
Radia Island is a civilization-building survival game. Lead your people to a new land, establish your first town, gather resources, research technologies, advance into the industrial age, and ultimately complete the space program.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, City Builder 22.7%, Survival 10%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #46 Ratopia
69% matchVery Positive88% of 4,899 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 25.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, City Builder 19.9%, Building 13.8%, Survival 10.5%, Management 8.6%
- #47 Country Architect
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: purple_mimosaPub: Tribesylvania Studios
Windows · Linux
Can you build an entire country? An infrastructure and economy management sim. Lead a nation to prosperity by strategically placing towns and factories. Choose between bidding teams to build connections, while paying attention to citizen feedback on Social Bird to avoid civil unrest.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25%, City Builder 23.7%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 10.6%, Economy 7.8%
- #48 Forgotten Vale
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Rospeath Studios
Windows
Cast into an idyllic wilderness, will you endure? A sandbox city-building game featuring a deceptively cheerful world: build freely —no grids— plus a fully simulated economy, intricate production chains, deep research tree, and growth you can feel. Can your people survive the winter?
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, City Builder 23%, Building 11.3%, Economy 10.1%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #49 Skyline Settlers
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Riza Ozhan
Windows
Build your colony on a floating island, keep your settlers happy and manage your resources wisely. Turn limited space into an advantage, create a peaceful town and enjoy a strategic life in the sky.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, City Builder 31.2%, Economy 11.6%, Building 10.4%, Management 6.6%
- #50 Endzone 2
68% matchMixed67% of 1,085 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6%, City Builder 21.9%, Survival 10.4%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #51 Thveit
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Winter Cats StudiosPub: Crytivo
Windows
Thveit is a cozy Norse settlement builder where changing seasons, ancient beliefs, and folklore creatures shape the fate of your settlements. Guide your settlers, manage resources, and grow a thriving community as humans and mythical beings learn to live side by side.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, City Builder 20.2%, Diplomacy 17.3% ★, Building 10.7%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #52 Northern Kingdoms
69% match8 user reviews63% of 8 reviews2022
Dev: North Gold Studios
Windows
In this addictive city-builder game, your job is to guide your citizens to create the ultimate buzzing city. Expand your city, keep your citizen fed and plan your way to victory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9%, City Builder 22.1%, Diplomacy 21.3% ★, Building 10%, Economy 8.3%
- #53 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
66% matchVery Positive91% of 27,451 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 71.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Why similar: City Builder 20.1%, Diplomacy 16.8% ★, Colony Sim 16.6%, Building 9.9%, Economy 9.1%
- #54 STARIO: Haven Tower
66% matchVery Positive94% of 360 reviews2025
Dev: Stargate Games
Windows
A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, City Builder 21.5%, Building 11.1%, Time Management 10.3%, Economy 9.4%
- #55 Gnome Glen
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Enchanted Pumpkin Co.
Windows
Gnome Glen is a relaxing survival colony sim / city builder that blends cozy charm with satisfying depth. Gather resources, build homes, farm crops, research techs and watch your gnome village come to life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6%, City Builder 21.7%, Building 10.3%, Economy 10%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #56 The First Settlement VR
67% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Christian Wendt
Windows
Build and manage a growing medieval town in The First Settlement VR. Place over 50 buildings, manage citizens and merchants, run production chains and trade with neighbouring towns. All in an evolving sandbox city builder experienced entirely in VR.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9%, City Builder 21.1%, Time Management 16.3%, Building 11.8%, Economy 9.7%
- #57 Cliff Empire
68% matchVery Positive87% of 4,378 reviews2019
Dev: Lion's Shade
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
Why similar: City Builder 23.2%, Colony Sim 22.2%, Economy 10.6%, Time Management 9.8%, Building 9.8%
- #58 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
67% matchVery Positive87% of 207 reviews2024
Dev: Purple Nebula
Windows
A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....
Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, City Builder 31.3%, Building 14.3%, Survival 11.3%, Strategy 4.7%